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Oli Griffith

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ARC Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Studying the evolution, genetics, and physiology of placentation in reptiles and mammals #evodevo #devoevo He/They

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ARC says they'll announce outcomes of Future Fellowships (FT26) tomorrow (Tue 8 Sep). In recent times, these announcements have been around 11am Canberra time, though certainly with some variation. My bot will automatically post within a minute after the announcement.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 05/09/2026
An algorithm off switch isn’t enough. Big tech needs a duty of care over addictive designs | Zoe Daniel
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An algorithm off switch isn’t enough. Big tech needs a duty of care over addictive designs | Zoe Daniel
As AI advances minute by minute and governments grapple with new developments they don’t know how to manage, holding big tech accountable becomes even more urgent A digital duty of care is about a lot more than opting out of “the algorithm”. And after the simplistic and at best patchy exercise of the under-16s social media ban, we shouldn’t let the government get away with another populist policy that looks good on the surface but doesn’t get to the core of the problem. A digital duty of care must hold the tech bros accountable for the safety of the spaces that they have created. Continue reading...
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Carmen da Silva @saltydasilva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am thrilled and honoured to have won the @ausevosoc.bsky.social Best Paper Award. This means I will be giving a plenary lecture at the societies conference in December. ausevo.com/programme/ da Silva et al (2026) Nature Communications was the awarded publication. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 01/09/2026
Are you looking for a research opportunity that combines wet and dry-lab experience? Then don’t miss your chance to apply for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme. Applications close on 27 September. 📌 Learn more & apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Life goal unlocked 😮🐣🥚🥚🥚
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Australian Research Council @arc-gov-au.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Join the ARC ⬇️ We’re recruiting: - Assistant Directors (EL1) who will lead teams delivering major govt grants programs & contribute to NCGP reform. - HR Advisor (APS5) who will help support our people and employee experience across the ARC. More: www.arc.gov.au/about-arc/wo...
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The Lucasfilm Collector @lucasfilmcollector.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Especially Star Wars Scholastic books!
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Lucy Ockert @lucyockert.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was fortunate enough to be awarded the @geneticsaus.bsky.social Spencer Smith-White Conference award which allowed me to attend GSA in Brisbane last week and present some of my PhD work. It’s always great to re-connect with the society and was an honour to be recognised by GSA! #GSA2026
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Sergio Menchero @sermenchero.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The 2nd part of my postdoc is now out as a preprint! A challenging but fulfilling team effort to perform genome editing in opossums. We found that the lncRNA RSX is essential to initiate X-inactivation in marsupials 🦘 A long-standing question since the discovery that Xist is absent in marsupials 👇
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Carina Rubio presenting her PhD work at #GSA2026
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Next up is the awesome Rosie Martin talking about the role of transposons on the evolution of reptile pregnancy. #GSA2016
Rosie Martin starting her presentation, with title slide, at GSA 2016
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 04/07/2026
Jhon Arias goal sends Colombia into last 16 as Ghana bow out of World Cup
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Jhon Arias goal sends Colombia into last 16 as Ghana bow out of World Cup
Ghana can only have feared the worst when Luis Suárez’s number came up in the seventh minute. A day on from the 16th anniversary of one of the most infamous episodes in World Cup history, the Colombia forward who shares a name with the man whose handball broke the hearts of Black Stars supporters in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup returned to haunt them. Not long after coming off the bench, it was the Sporting striker who provided the assist for what turned out to be the winning goal from Jhon Arias to set up a last-16 clash against Switzerland in Vancouver on Tuesday. Even if they couldn’t find another goal that their superiority clearly warranted, Colombia were deserved winners and look more than capable of at least matching their previous best result at the 2014 World Cup when they reached the last eight. Continue reading...
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Matt Towers @matt-towers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Pleased to share our latest! We show that the chick limb can be directed to recapitulate key stages in mammalian evolution, providing a unifying model for digit patterning across amniotes. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Video summary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvL_...
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Transforming avian to mammalian modes of digit patterning
How a conserved embryonic organiser-the Sonic hedgehog (Shh)-expressing Zone of Polarising Activity (ZPA)-generates diverse limb architectures in amniotes remains a central problem in evolutionary and...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
#DiscoveryProjects #DP27 Detailed assessor reports should be released in ARC's RMS tomorrow (23 Jun). Normally about 11am, Canberra time (but it varies). Remember the #ARC3DayRule: Think an assessment is "inappropriate"? You've only got 3 days to lodge a "request for review" 👇
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Awesome to see our paper on marsupial DNA methylation reprogramming in @natcomms.nature.com. We found epigenetic reprogramming of the placenta is conserved across mammals, but reprogramming of the embryo is confined to eutherians. Led by the amazing @angeloniallegra.bsky.social & @kseskv.bsky.social
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DNA methylation reprogramming in marsupial embryos is restricted to the extraembryonic lineage - Nature Communications
Here the authors generate a new genome and the first embryonic methylomes of an Australian marsupial to show that the embryo retains high DNA methylation while the trophectoderm undergoes erasure...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 11/06/2026
Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
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Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia should learn from the mistakes of the resources boom and set the terms for the AI and datacentres boom, the assistant minister for the digital economy, Andrew Charlton says. Growth in datacentres has exploded in the past two years, Charlton told the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night, with 44 projects in the pipeline in New South Wales alone seeking 11GW of capacity on the electricity grid. Continue reading...
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A wealth tax is “not a punishment but a sign of social justice and solidarity in a functioning and humane country” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Orbán’s oligarchs on edge as Hungary poised to launch wealth tax
New PM Péter Magyar calls policy a sign of ‘social justice’ after years of political loyalty being rewarded with economic opportunity
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Research on Research Association @roration.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS
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Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities
Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science
2 x full time, continuing positions, located on the Camperdown Campus in the Faculty of Science Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Pro...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 01/06/2026
Jim Chalmers says fewer properties selling at auction may be a ‘good thing’ for first home buyers
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Jim Chalmers says fewer properties selling at auction may be a ‘good thing’ for first home buyers
Auction success hit a new low for the year on the last Saturday in May, with just 54.5% of homes sold The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has suggested falling auction clearance rates may be a “good thing” for first home buyers if it means they aren’t competing against as many property investors. After data was released showing home prices in Australia’s capital cities had begun to fall and buyers were abandoning auctions, Chalmers on Monday said Labor’s proposed property tax reforms weren’t the only thing slowing the housing market. Continue reading...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Job going at @australiainstitute.org.au. 🚨🚨🚨 Come work with @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social and help us change the nation for the better! www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/TheA...
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Content Producer - Video and Social - Job in Canberra & ACT - The Australia Institute
Create impactful video and social content on Australia’s biggest issues. Join a leading think tank to turn research into compelling stories across platforms.
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Exciting new work on parallel #evolution: — genetic variants across butterflies are located in similar noncoding regions in ivory and optix. — in … more distant moths, a large inversion containing ivory, closely mirroring the supergene architecture of Heliconius. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’m a President now. @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social
President of ACOG pictured
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Checkout our latest paper, describing the first embryonic staging scheme for a skink. Led by PhD student Jinglin Wen! doi.org/10.1002/jmor...
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Post‐Oviposition Embryonic Staging Scheme for the Delicate Skink, Lampropholis delicata
We detail the morphology of post-oviposition embryos throughout development and compare it with reptilian embryonic staging schemes from other squamates. We identified 16 embryo stages based on the d...
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feña Palominos @fishfena.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Do you wanna learn about new labs researching #EvoDevo across the Americas? Check them out here! Frogs 🐸, butterflies 🦋 and cnidarians 🪼 #embryos
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Here's their target: "Meanwhile, in-kind transfers like government-subsidised education, disability and healthcare are increasing." Public Education Public Disability Care Public Health care They want to be America.
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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Japan raises more tax revenue from Australian gas exports than Australia does. Japan has a tax on gas and coal imports that raises more money than Aus PRRT. Great new research out today @australiainstitute.org.au @richarddenniss.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/report/taxin...
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"We find that while TAD boundaries pair more frequently than non-boundary regions, these interactions are infrequent and are uncorrelated with transcriptional activity of genes within the TAD" elifesciences.org/articles/110...
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TAD boundaries and gene activity are uncoupled
Single-cell analysis fails to find a functional link between the organization of chromatin domain organization and gene activity.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
2x PhD projects available at @rennesuniv.bsky.social. 1. Why populations rise & fall: global demography of amphibians & reptiles sfecologie.org/offre/funded... 2. Demographic resilience & persistence of populations under climate warming sfecologie.org/offre/funded... Deadline: 30 May 2026
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Genetics Society of AustralAsia @geneticsaus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Reminder: the Jenny Donald Undergraduate Student Conference Award closes 11:59pm, 7 May (AEST). Know a keen genetics undergraduate? Encourage them to apply for free registration to GSA 2026 in Brisbane! 🌴🧬📆
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 30/03/2026
Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
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Genetics Society of AustralAsia @geneticsaus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
📣GSA 2026 Award winners announced! 📣 All winners will be presenting at 🧬GSA 2026🧬 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. 🚩Reminder to submit your abstracts by April 6th and register to hear these amazing researchers present their work!
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 25/03/2026
We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders. We offer: 🔬 World-class IT infrastructure 🧠 Creative freedom for your research 📊 Access to the world’s most comprehensive open biological data Apply by 11 April embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers @johnlees.bacpop.org @embl.org
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I got the rejection email today. I didn't have any luck with the Australian Geographic photo comp this year. No need for sympathy. I'm used to it. It's very competitive. Here's one of my unsuccessful entries. A yellow-tailed rock wallaby at Boolcoomatta Reserve.
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Awesome to see our paper that explores the role of inflammation during marsupial pregnancy come out @plosbiology.org. We found that embryos secrete inflammatory signals that directly impact embryo survival and nutrient allocation. Explaining why inflammation has been retained in implantation.
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Fetal inflammatory signals regulate maternal investment during marsupial pregnancy
Marsupial pregnancy is short and characterized by a spike in inflammation which has been proposed to represent a maternal immune response to fetal contact that limits gestation. This study shows that ...
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Allegra Angeloni @angeloniallegra.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
1/ I’m very excited to share my postdoc work with @kseskv.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oligriffith.bsky.social. We explore embryonic DNA methylation reprogramming in the fat-tailed dunnart, an Australian marsupial 🦘🌏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tanja Junkers @polymerreaction.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Translation for last year PhD students: You want to watch the ARC webpage tomorrow to see who will be looking for postdocs in 2026
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
New life goal achieved! #OviparousMammal #Echidna #OriginsOfPregnancy
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Fetal inflammatory signals regulate maternal investment in a pregnant marsupial www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Oli Griffith @oligriffith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🧬 Ever wondered how something as bizarre and vital as the placenta evolved—not just in humans, but across the animal kingdom? I had a great time chatting about the wild diversity of placentation (think: lizards, sharks, and more) on the latest episode of Tiny Matters. 🎧 Listen here:
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The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without
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Deboki C @okidokiboki.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
before working on this episode, i'd never thought about the fact that male seahorses have placentas, and now I can't stop thinking about it open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...
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The placenta: A disposable organ we can’t live without
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Budget should include a massive and historic increase in funding for research. Not only is it needed, but we really should be poaching ever medical and scientific researcher from the US we can. Absolutely perfect timing.
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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New book out on invasions by the brilliant @benflips.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/59515
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The Ecology and Evolution of Invasive Populations
Abstract. Why do populations spread through space, and how do they change as they do so? In answering these questions, this book shows that phenomena as di
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#FutureFellowships #FT25 Detailed Assessor reports are now available in RMS and rejoinders have opened. Here’s an older thread with suggestions on dealing with assessor reports – especially the #ARC3DayRule – and constructing a rejoinder. threadreaderapp.com/thread/15191...
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Thread by @ARC_Tracker on Thread Reader App
@ARC_Tracker: 🚨#DECRA #DE23 applicants❗️ Rejoinders open in RMS tomorrow (28 Apr) – short🧵👇 First: Sooo important to read reviews ASAP. Can be hard. But do it. Why? #ARC3DayRule. For fun, ARC gives yo...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The ARC have tweeted that they will released Discovery Projects Expression of Interest outcomes tomorrow.
Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying the following: "DP26 EOI applicants: tomorrow all lead CIs will receive an email with their outcomes and all applicants will be able to get their results in RMS. Due to the volume of applications, emails may be staggered throughout the day. Stay tuned for an update.".
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Dr Alice Clement @draliceclement.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project). Applications close 25th March 2025! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This week the ARC should release Expressions of Interest outcomes for Discovery Projects. Should be Wed–Fri. They’re not public, so my bot cannot track them. The ARC should email applicants, and maybe tweet(?), to say outcomes are available in RMS.
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